โ๐ฌ๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฃ๐ข๐ฐ๐ฑ๐ฆ๐ณ๐๐ฉ ๐๐ฆ๐ค๐ซ๐ฆ๐ฃ๐ฆ๐ ๐๐ซ๐ ๐ข - Iskcon Raichur
Holi festival signifies the victory of good over evil, the arrival of spring, end of winter, and for many a festive day to meet others, play and laugh, forget and forgive, and repair broken relationships, and is also celebrated as a thanksgiving for a good harvest.
๐๐ฌ๐ก๐ข๐ฏ๐ซ ๐ฒ๐ซ๐ก๐ข๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ฑ๐๐ซ๐ก๐ฆ๐ซ๐ค ๐ฌ๐ฃ โ๐ฌ๐ฉ๐ฆ
1. Holi is the festival of colours. These colours were made of natural substances. The original holi was with kesar and gulabjal (saffron and rosewater). Both are out of reach to the common man anymore. The other natural substances used were natural dyes, turmeric etc. The purpose was that by playing with these colours at this time of the year, there would be no skin diseases. Now, with corruption, it is quite the opposite.
2. The pyre we light the night before the festival of colours has the purpose of burning away all the germs and insects that are typically present at any change of season in a tropical country like India.
๐๐ญ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ฑ๐ฒ๐๐ฉ ๐๐ฆ๐ค๐ซ๐ฆ๐ฃ๐ฆ๐ ๐๐ซ๐ ๐ข ๐ฌ๐ฃ โ๐ฌ๐ฉ๐ฆ
1. Holi pyre was lit to signify a pastime of Prahlada maharaj and his aunt, Holika. Hiranyakashipu was very anxious to kill Prahlada Maharaj because of his refusal to accept him as Supreme and insistence that Visnu is supreme. At the time, all the attempts being made were backfiring (like falling from hilltop, crushing by elephant), then his sister Holika came up with the idea that she has got a boon that she cannot be burned by fire. Therefore, she will sit with Prahlad on her lap on a pyre and that should be lit. Prahlad will be burned and she will be saved because of the boon. Hiranyakashipu agreed to the plan and it was executed. The mercy of the lord was such that Holika was burned and Prahlada was saved. That is why when the pyre is made ready even today, there is a sugarcane which is kept in the middle and removed immediately on lighting the pyre at night. A lot of people will go and do some puja before the pyre is lit (called thandi holi ki puja). That is to pray to the lord to save Prahlada maharaj from the calamity of being burned. They are putting tika on the sugarcane if you notice.
2. During His youth, Lord Krishna had a benevolent bond with Radha, who is the chief of the gopis. She was fair-skinned and that caused a feeling of despair in Krishna’s heart as He had a dark skin tone himself.
As a result of this, his mother Yashoda approached Radha and asked her to colour Krishna’s face with any colour she wanted. And since then, this playful colouring of Radha and Lord Krishna is celebrated as Radha Krishna Holi.
๐ ถ๐ ฐ๐๐ ๐ ฟ๐๐๐ ฝ๐ ธ๐ ผ๐ ฐ ๐ ต๐ ด๐๐๐ ธ๐ ๐ ฐ๐ ป in Iskcon Raichur
ISKCON devotees invite all to temple, perform abhishek of Gaur Nitai, dance and sing Hare Krishna maha mantra, worship cows, distribute annadanam and pray to be sincerely in service of the Lotus feet of Guru, Gauranga and Radha Krishna
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